I was quite surprised with Mark Cavendish's recovery today. What an achievement to come back this way! And props to Gutierrez, great fighting spirit. I hope the men separate themselves from the boys tomorrow, the first few real climbs are going to start!

Today the first mountains appear!

Tour should finally get interesting today! My guess is there will be no major changes in the GC though (except maybe Chavanel losing the yellow jersey again).

Wow! It got interesting! Andy Schleck got his well deserved stage win, and the Boss put on the parking brake! 12 minutes behind Contador and the rest of the major climbers...

Seriously starting to doubt whether he will start tomorrow.

I was glad to see Andy Schleck get the stage win. I would like to see him come into Paris with a yellow jersey.

Bad luck for Lance, hate to see his Tours end like that. Perhaps there will still be an opportunity for him to get a stage win. Levi is lucky to have a new super domestique, but I think the Radio Shack squad is going to go home with nothing but disappointment.

cadel

hahaha

Finally a stage today where the leading group got to the finish. Looking forward to 18 july now. Next stage with big mountains

With Schleck only having an advantage of 31 seconds over Contador I would say that he has very low chances of winning the Tour since he is awful at time trialing. Contador is also better on the steeper ascents so I feel like he might even gain more time in the Pyrenees over Schleck. That being said, I still hope Schleck wins...

someone explain to me if i saw this right? Lance is in 36 place 25 minutes behind.. is that bad? or is he stll good to go